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Words Have A Genealogy And It's Easier To Trace The Evolution Of A Single Word Than The Evolution Of A Language.

It Stands To Reason That We Love Chocolate Cake Because It Is Sweet. Guys Go For Girls Like This Because They Are Sexy. We Adore Babies Because They're So Cute. And, Of Course, We Are Amused By Jokes Because They Are Funny. This Is All Backwards. It Is. And Darwin Shows Us Why.

After Darwin, God's Role Changes From Being The Designer Of All Creatures Great And Small To Being The Designer Of The Laws Of Nature, From Which Natural Selection Can Unfold, To Being Perhaps Just The Chooser Of The Laws. By The Time God's Role Has Been So Diminished, He Becomes A Bit Like A Constitutional Monarch, Presiding Ceremonially But Not Having Any More Work To Do. That's A Place For God If It Makes People Comfortable To Keep God As The Presider Over The Universe. I Suppose That Is Satisfying For Many.

Minds Are In Limited Supply, And Each Mind Has A Limited Capacity For Memes, And Hence There Is Considerable Competition Among Memes For Entry In As Many Minds As Possible.

Religion Is Defined As Social Systems Whose Participants Avow A Supernatural Agent Or Agents Whose Approval Is To Be Sought.